The films

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1962 · Italy · 91m

A muscleman drops into a full gothic hell. Peplum crossbred with a haunted-castle picture, and it looks it.

1961 · Italy · 92m

Maciste renamed again, fighting a shapeshifter. Cheerfully incoherent.

1959 · France/Italy · 90m

Reeves again, with underwater battle scenes Bava shot uncredited.

1961 · Italy · 86m

Bava shoots Hades in gel colours. Looks like nothing else in the cycle.

1959 · France/Italy · 105m

The sequel that turned one Hercules hit into an entire industry.

1958 · Spain/Italy · 99m

Steve Reeves, a Mr Universe title, and the start of the Italian genre machine.

1961 · France/Spain · 127m

Leone's actual debut, three years before the westerns.